Supporters of justice around the world were heartened when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently won the Democratic congressional primary for a Bronx/Queens district with a grassroots campaign that included a forceful condemnation of the ongoing Israeli massacre of Palestinian Great Return March protesters in Gaza.

This is a massacre.

I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such.

No state or entity is absolved of mass shootings of protesters. There is no justification. Palestinian people deserve basic human dignity, as anyone else.

The Great Return March demands an end to Israel’s genocidal siege on Gaza, as well as refugees’ right, enshrined in UN Resolution 194, to return to homes from which they were expelled during the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe)that created that Israeli state.

Alexandria, your campaign is only as strong as its principles. Just as you speak truth to power for Abolish ICE, Standing Rock, Black Lives Matter, and Puerto Rico, stand firm with justice for Palestine!

“Democrats, please, please don’t lose your minds and rush to the socialist left. This president and his Republican Party are counting on you to do exactly that. America’s great middle wants sensible, balanced, ethical leadership.”

yes “the socialist left” has cachet now, whatever you do don’t go socialist, but Ash Sharkar, an ostensibly Muslim lady went “communist, you fucking idiot” the other day, he didn’t say anything about not going communist, theres still time America…

|| Yonah Fredman: By the way, the Great March of Return was not so great. More like desperate measures. … ||

Yup, it’s strange what the women chained in the rapist’s basement are willing to try in order to secure their freedom and to get justice.

Stranger still are the people who:
– condemn the women for the acts of violence they (attempt to) commit against the rapist; and
– justify the acts of violence the rapist commits; and
– insist on and defend the rapist’s “right” to “self-determination”.

Always a good idea to strip off the pretense of single-party shepherd dog politicians to be anything but the vote pimps of the imperial war machine.
Mentioning something in that way, within the petition, would help people cut free from the Empire parties later –when they see such appeals used as toilet paper by Ocasio (or Sanders, etc.)

This is a great petition. I just signed it and sent her an e-mail about the apparent change in her support for Palestinians at her address [email protected]

The PBS interview was a real punch to the gut. I am from NYC and raised awareness about her primary campaign with several friends who live in her district, after hearing her brave interview in The Intercept in the wake of the Gaza Land Day and Nakba Day massacres. Like me, all of them are pro-Palestian and that was one of the reasons they ended up voting for her.

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